Re: [PATCH] travis-ci: build Git during the 'script' phase

[Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>]

> On 08 Jan 2018, at 23:07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> The reason why Travis CI does it this way and why it's a better
>> approach than ours lies in how unsuccessful build jobs are
>> categorized.  ...
>> ...
>> This makes it easier, both for humans looking at the Travis CI web
>> interface and for automated tools querying the Travis CI API,...
>> ...
>> A verbose commit message for such a change... but I don't know why we
>> started with building Git in the 'before_script' phase.
> 
> Thanks for writing it up clearly.  TBH, I didn't even realize that
> there were meaningful distinctions between the two cases after
> seeing that sometimes our tests were failing and sometimes erroring
> ;-)

I understand the reasons for the proposed patch. However, I did this 
intentionally back then. Here is my reason:

If `make` is successful, then I am not interested in its output.
Look at this run: https://travis-ci.org/szeder/git/jobs/324271623

You have to scroll down 1,406 lines to get to the test result 
output (this is usually the interesting part).

If this is a valid argument for you, would it be an option to
pipe the verbose `make` output to a file and only print it in case
of error (we do something similar for the tests already).

- Lars